Shoes could be two feet long in medieval times. The toes of the shoes were usually filled with hair, wool, moss, or grass.
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In 2009, Burger King launched a campaign that if you unfriended 10 friends on Facebook, you were entitled to a free Whopper. The person you unfriended would get a message telling them that their friendship is worth less than a Whopper.
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Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. It was rumored that Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie “Predator”.
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In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
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In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard running away from a fire.
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Mattel once tried to sue Aqua over their song “Barbie Girl”. The judge literally told them to “chill”.
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The Guinness brewery supported all of it’s employees who chose to fight in WW1. They were paid half of their wages while away, and their jobs were guaranteed upon their return. The brewery also sent them care packages containing chocolate and condensed milk.
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